The Glass Character
Monday, April 18, 2011

The Royal Wedding: get dow-w-w-w-w-nnn!

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The aim of life

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"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Keep it gay by William Shatner

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Shit, Shat. . . Shot.
Friday, April 15, 2011

Damage control

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TheStar Charlie Sheen invites you to walk in TO for bipolar awareness Ayayayayay. In light of recent revelations about Catherine Zeta-Jo...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Searching for Rich Correll

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I can remember a time when I wouldn't touch a computer, afraid it would give me one of those searing visible cracks I always get...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Record labels from the lunar surface

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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Way Down Yonder in The Cornfield by The Brilliant Quartet (1891)

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I discovered another version of this rather awful song, very close to the one I remember from my wayward youth, but I just couldn't post...
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Flintstone records

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You know those ol' guys (though I guess maybe some of them are girls, and I guess maybe some of them are me) who go on and on about...
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Edison phonograph cylinders (1888): Handel - Israel in Egypt

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(I seem to have lost the ability to format these posts, so they're all running together into one blob/blog. I hope to straighten it out...

Of vinegar and things

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Yesterday I went in to Vancouver so I could go to Dressew and look at fabric. Last time we were over at my son’s place, Erica was on the f...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Beniamino Gigli - E lucevan le stelle 1938

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Beniamino Gigli - E lucevan le stelle 1938

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Okay then. So, singers. We've been talking about, thinking about singers, some unusual singers from the past, and some strangely beautif...
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Monday, April 4, 2011

A moment in time

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Michael Maniaci, Male Soprano Voice

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Radu Marian, Handel "Lascia Ch'io Pianga"

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Philippe Jaroussky "Lascia ch'io pianga" Rinaldo

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High attitude

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Whew. How can it be Monday already? Anyway, I don't think I've ever had as much trouble as I did with yesterday's post, and ...

Gilded and gelded: giving your all for art

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Of all the weirdnesses I’ve produced on this blog, this may be the weirdest. I don’t know what got me onto this, and it was not even a new...
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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Strauss gets his groove on: the Great Waltz (1938)

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A long, strange trip

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This falls under the category of why the hell am I doing this. You fall down the rabbit hole of a past you didn't even enjoy very mu...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Just one more, because I loved him

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This is what it looked like. . .

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Hard to caption these, though many of them seem to come from the mists of antiquity. What strikes me is how different my view of them is...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Which is what?

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So which is what? Which one of these honkin' old brick buildings is McKeough School, where I attended from 1959 to 1964 (though it ...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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